Journal
JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE
Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12968-021-00758-9
Keywords
Coronary artery disease; Coronary magnetic resonance angiography; CMRA; Atherosclerosis; High resolution; Coronary angiography
Funding
- EPSRC [EP/P032311/1, EP/P001009/1, EP/P007619/1]
- BHF programme Grant [RG/20/1/34802]
- King's BHF Centre for Research Excellence [RE/18/2/34213]
- Wellcome EPSRC Centre for Medical Engineering [NS/A000049/1]
- Department of Health via the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Cardiovascular Health Technology Cooperative (HTC)
- comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre
- King's College London
- King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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The study demonstrates that coronary CMRA has high diagnostic image quality and accuracy compared to coronary CTA, showing its potential as a robust and safe non-invasive alternative for excluding significant disease in low to intermediate risk CAD patients.
Background The widespread clinical application of coronary cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) angiography (CMRA) for the assessment of coronary artery disease (CAD) remains limited due to low scan efficiency leading to prolonged and unpredictable acquisition times; low spatial-resolution; and residual respiratory motion artefacts resulting in limited image quality. To overcome these limitations, we have integrated highly undersampled acquisitions with image-based navigators and non-rigid motion correction to enable high resolution (sub-1 mm(3)) free-breathing, contrast-free 3D whole-heart coronary CMRA with 100% respiratory scan efficiency in a clinically feasible and predictable acquisition time. Objectives To evaluate the diagnostic performance of this coronary CMRA framework against coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) in patients with suspected CAD. Methods Consecutive patients (n = 50) with suspected CAD were examined on a 1.5T CMR scanner. We compared the diagnostic accuracy of coronary CMRA against coronary CTA for detecting a >= 50% reduction in luminal diameter. Results The 50 recruited patients (55 +/- 9 years, 33 male) completed coronary CMRA in 10.7 +/- 1.4 min. Twelve (24%) had significant CAD on coronary CTA. Coronary CMRA obtained diagnostic image quality in 95% of all, 97% of proximal, 97% of middle and 90% of distal coronary segments. The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and diagnostic accuracy were: per patient (100%, 74%, 55%, 100% and 80%), per vessel (81%, 88%, 46%, 97% and 88%) and per segment (76%, 95%, 44%, 99% and 94%) respectively. Conclusions The high diagnostic image quality and diagnostic performance of coronary CMRA compared against coronary CTA demonstrates the potential of coronary CMRA as a robust and safe non-invasive alternative for excluding significant disease in patients at low-intermediate risk of CAD.
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